The bishops of Pakistan have invited Pope Leo XIV to visit to country, he is reported to be open to visiting there

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The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage for the USA's 250th anniversary begins this week

The HUGE pilgrimage will start in Florida, at the site of the first Catholic Mass on American soil and will finish in Philadelphia on the 4th of July weekend

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BREAKING 🇻🇦

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas has just been released

It is subtitled 'Safeguarding the Human Person in the time of Artificial Intelligence'

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🚨 Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas States the 'right to life' is the first right and essential to all other rights

'When this fundamental right is denied — as in the cases of induced abortion, killing of the innocent and euthanasia — we are faced with choices that the Church considers gravely wrong'

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'If the human being is treated as something to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful, less desirable or less worthy'

Pope Leo XIV
Magnifica Humanitas

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'To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well.

Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.

It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity'

Pope Leo XIV
Magnifica Humanitas

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'Some post-humanist currents even go so far as to envision “second-class” human beings, subordinate to the interests of elites who consider themselves superior'

Pope Leo XIV
Magnifica Humanitas

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🚨 FRANCE 🇫🇷

20,000 mostly young pilgrims have finally reached Chartres after 3 days of walking from Paris

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FRANCE 🇫🇷

The 20,000 pilgrims have reached Chartres Cathedral after 3 days of walking from Paris and are now attending Mass with Cardinal Burke

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On May 25th 2018, a relentlessly well funded international campaign led to a vote to REMOVE the right of a baby to be born alive

The removal of the 8th Amendment was heralded as the beginning of a new Ireland by many quarters

Since then, 60,000 abortions have occurred and over a hundred babies have been born alive and left to die after botched abortions

As for the utopia of a new Ireland?Ownership of housing amongst young people has completely collapsed, the country has become one of the most cocaine addicted in the world and young people continue to emigrate in huge numbers to countries where it is easier to build a life and to buy a home

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🚨 In a very direct speech to European leaders yesterday, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the demographic crisis in Europe and CONDEMNED policies which reduce birth rates:

'Purportedly family-friendly policies, which simultaneously promote discrimination against motherhood, exalt abortion as a right, and undermine the very foundation of the desire to start a family'

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🚨 Pope Leo XIV has delivered a hard hitting speech to EU leaders, calling out the 'rejection of the Christian inspiration of the founding fathers of the EU'

He also said that Europe is facing 'DRASTIC STERILITY' because 'too many have been deprived of the right to be born' and 'because there has been a failure to pass on the material and cultural tools that young people need to face the future'

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IRELAND

Prolife group Déise4Life placed dozens of crosses in Dungarvan to remember the 60,000 Irish babies aborted since 2018

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Something is happening in Ireland

Churches across the country are flying Sacred Heart flags for the month of June

This one in Waterford

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'The new generation is not closed to the Gospel; on the contrary, many, when they rediscover it, wish to know it better, because they sense that within it lies the secret to being truly happy'

Pope Leo XIV

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🚨 Pope Leo XIV has invited Catholics AROUND THE WORLD to pray the Rosary alongside him as he prays for peace from the Vatican Gardens on May 30th at 7pm

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